a. “When I look back on it, it seems to me as if I had been living here like a poor woman—just from hand to mouth.”b. “She wanted to make a ton of money, too, so she could stop being poor and go back to the lifestyle she used to have, when her father was still alive.”

a. “Do you know, when I am out at a party with you like this, why I speak so little to you, keep away from you, and only send a stolen glance in your direction now and then? Do you know why I do that? It is because I make believe to myself that we are secretly in love, and you are my secretly promised bride, and that no one suspects there is anything between us.”b. “Suddenly she realized that the two of them were kind of the ‘it’ couple at this party. Not that they were a couple, but still.”